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1<br />
CREWE’D JOTTINGS<br />
Issue 7<br />
<strong>The</strong> GainesWood Phantom<br />
Terry Herbstreit printed off the above photo of this modified Phantom that was created by the<br />
craftsmen at P & A Wood (UK). Paul Wood of the same company kindly emailed this and other<br />
photos of the car to me and it created such an impact at the meeting, I thought I would share it<br />
with the rest of you. P & A Wood are well known <strong>for</strong> their very high standard of workmanship<br />
and the Gaineswood Phantom bares ample testament to this.<br />
JUNE 6 th . 2006 REPORT<br />
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<strong>The</strong> purpose of these self-help gatherings is to gain a better understanding<br />
and a working knowledge of the vehicles in our charge.<br />
It does not nor is it intended to imply that the work carried out on these vehicles<br />
will replace the expert knowledge of those that specialise in this field.<br />
Each owner is strongly encouraged to keep his or her motorcar maintained<br />
by a qualified professional unless they have a thorough working knowledge of the<br />
vehicle themselves.
2<br />
A Gathering Of Clouds<br />
Members present:<br />
Terry Farrow, Laurence Bottomley, Peter Jordan-Hill, John Mantello, Peter Jeffery, David Wright,<br />
Casey Van Berkel, Gary Ayer, Simon Roberts, Nick Lang, Stephen Young, Mark Herbstreit, Terry<br />
Herbstreit, Neil Matthews, Eric Henderson, Paul Dabrowski, John Clements, Adrian Hill, Mark Walton,<br />
Kaye Farrow, Geoffrey May and Robert Wort.<br />
Friends present:<br />
Robert Harris, Scott young, Stephen Burrows, Alex Henderson and Elizabeth Wort.<br />
As with the last meeting, we enjoyed the generosity of Robert Harris in the use of his facilities at<br />
Roadstar Automotive in Cheltenham. If I was to sow seeds <strong>for</strong> a good attendance, then I certainly got a<br />
bumper crop, with no less than twenty-seven Members and Friends present.<br />
It’s hard to believe that our Technical Self-Help Group has already been in motion <strong>for</strong> over 1 year and at<br />
this meeting we were graced by the presence of two Presidents. Neil Matthews (Victoria Branch<br />
President) and Eric Henderson (Federal President) and we are deeply honoured to have had them both<br />
with us on the day.<br />
<strong>The</strong> only downside was that I brought along my new digital camera and in my ineptitude of all things<br />
modern, I didn’t realise that one needs a memory card <strong>for</strong> these contraptions and it only holds 6 photos<br />
in its inbuilt memory; there<strong>for</strong>e that is the only number of photos I could take on the day as there were<br />
no other cameras present.<br />
Motorcars attended to were Peter Jordan-Hill’s Silver Cloud 11, David Wright’s Silver Cloud 11, John<br />
Mantello’s Silver Cloud 1 and Eric Henderson’s Silver Shadow LWB.<br />
Peter had a few mysterious rattles that<br />
he wished to find and have eradicated<br />
and also wished to have his nonoriginal<br />
and non-functional airconditioning<br />
system removed. It<br />
seemed to have an endless supply of<br />
hoses and pipes.<br />
Never-the-less, Robert Harris and Neil<br />
Matthews rose to the occasion and<br />
proceeded to cut, pull and unscrew<br />
everything connected with it until<br />
every offending bit was removed.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y also found the mysterious rattle.<br />
<strong>The</strong> damn thing was emanating from<br />
the inside of the rear muffler. Time <strong>for</strong><br />
a new one methinks.
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While this was all going on, Terry Herbstreit investigated the smoking habits of Eric Henderson’s<br />
Shadow LWB. This was briefly investigated at the Federal Rally by Terry’s son, Mark up at Orange<br />
(New South Wales) and Mark quickly realised that the SU’s needed some attention. He freed the sticky<br />
choke butterflies but it was also evident that the needles and seats required replacement.<br />
With the necessary spares in hand, Terry H. carried out the task. A good indicator; no smoke on start up.<br />
We’ll keep a sharp eye out on the car’s per<strong>for</strong>mance over the next few weeks.<br />
Now it was David’s turn.<br />
David Wright has been having some gear change problems with his Cloud 11 and also has excessive<br />
travel on his handbrake. He, Mark H. and Nick Lang went <strong>for</strong> a test drive to check out the gear changes.<br />
David has already had a go at adjusting the transmission linkages and has succeeded in improving the<br />
speed range. He has however, adjusted it up a little too far as it was noticed that there was slight slippage<br />
between second and third speeds and also no kick-down.<br />
Nick noted that the idle speed was way too high and suggested that adjustment should start at carburettor<br />
level and fine-tune everything back from there to the linkages. Further investigations will ensue.<br />
David will affect further adjustments himself as there was no available time to do further work in this<br />
area as we also needed to look at the brakes.
<strong>The</strong> brakes have been ‘juddering’<br />
since he purchased the car and<br />
the handbrake had far too much<br />
travel.<br />
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We found an interesting culprit<br />
and this will be a timely warning<br />
to those who over tighten the<br />
wheel nuts when replacing the<br />
wheels. <strong>The</strong> studs on the lefthand<br />
front wheel hub were<br />
actually bent inwards, which<br />
stopped the brake drum from<br />
seating itself correctly on the<br />
trammel. This is the first time I<br />
have seen this sort of problem<br />
and hopefully it will be the last.<br />
<strong>The</strong> only remedy is to remove<br />
these studs and replace them.<br />
As far as the handbrake was<br />
concerned, it was found that<br />
sometime in the past, someone<br />
had fitted a non-standard cable,<br />
which was in fact too long.<br />
Rather than removing it, David<br />
will place a cable clamp on it<br />
and shorten it to the correct<br />
length. Meanwhile, Nick<br />
adjusted all the other linkages<br />
and a test drive afterwards has<br />
shown a marked improvement<br />
in the car’s braking.<br />
Further work, will of course<br />
need to be done.<br />
Time <strong>for</strong> lunch and the traditional ‘barbie’ was put into action.<br />
This gave our Federal President time to take the floor and announce that the ‘Le Mans’ winning <strong>Bentley</strong><br />
will be visiting Melbourne in July and that he has made special arrangements <strong>for</strong> club members to have<br />
a private viewing (God bless him). I’ll certainly be looking <strong>for</strong>ward to that.<br />
We also gave thanks to our benefactor, Robert Harris <strong>for</strong> once again providing us with his premises,<br />
Roadstar Automotive and to member, Laurence Bottomley <strong>for</strong> liaising between Robert H. and myself to<br />
get things happening in this regard.
We had just one more job to do apart from greasing all the joints on David’s Cloud 11, and that was to<br />
inspect the drip plugs on John Mantello’s Cloud 1.<br />
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John was concerned that the system was consuming too much oil but we were surprised how the whole<br />
system remained in good condition bearing in mind that this car has travelled over 300,000 miles in its<br />
lifetime. <strong>The</strong> oil as it turned out appeared to be too thin (<strong>The</strong> system requires 90 grade manual gear oil).<br />
Happily, oil is going to all the right places and there is no evidence of blockages.<br />
While it was up there, we gave all the grease nipples a lube and we showed John where all the<br />
lubricating points are.<br />
Shame there were no more photos but we’ll make up <strong>for</strong> it next time.<br />
I received a lot of positive comments regarding the self-help sessions and it is heartening to see that<br />
everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves.<br />
State President Neil Matthews will arrange our next meeting in August.<br />
We will be holding a Concours Judge training session and Neil will organise one Pre-War car and one<br />
Post-War car <strong>for</strong> the inspection.<br />
Members will have an ideal opportunity to see what the judges look <strong>for</strong> and how to prepare their entrants<br />
and we will also have an opportunity to inspect some very interesting cars close up.<br />
‘Til next time folks,<br />
Happy and safe motoring.<br />
Robert Wort<br />
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